LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A spirited LeBron James walked on the court at HP Field House for the Los Angeles Lakers’ second scrimmage on Saturday and began greeting each of the Orlando Magic’s starting five with fist bumps. He then took his position behind JaVale McGee for the jump ball. But before locking into the challenge that was seconds to come, his attention turned to an onlooker sitting in the front row of a designated area for team staffers. [Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy… Source link

“To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we’ll be extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021 for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a memo to employees, a copy of which was obtained by CNN Business. “I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves and your loved ones over the next 12 months.” And we can expect more companies, particularly its Silicon Valley neighbors,… Source link

Aaron Rodgers went into more depth on his reaction when the Green Bay Packers drafted Jordan Love in Round 1, and it shed more light on his mindset of the controversial pick. Plus, it gave us insight on Rodgers’ drink of choice when things get a little weird. Typically a scotch man, Rodgers told NFL Media’s Kyle Brandt that he was watching the draft closely, perked up when the Packers traded up four picks to No. 26 overall … and then reached for his bottle of tequila when Love was the… Source link

Stocks have replaced real estate as America’s favorite long-term investment.  Stocks are now 28% of Americans’ investment of choice, dethroning real estate as the most popular long-term investment (26%) in 2020, according to a survey of more than 1,000 Americans from June 29 to July 5 by Bankrate, a New York-based consumer financial services company. Read more: How to start real estate investing “The way the stock market is viewed by individual investors can be very fickle,” said Greg… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google’s work from home plans could have a big impact on office markets in major U.S. cities (Getty, Pixabay) In December 2018, Google CFO Ruth Porat announced plans for the search giant’s new 1.7 million-square-foot campus in Manhattan’s Hudson Square, a move that would allow the company to “more than double the number of Googlers in New York over the next 10 years.” It was the latest in a series of billion-dollar moves that had made Google one of… Source link

Cellular medicine uses live cells and tissues to repair and regenerate the body without drugs or major surgery. The late-stage biotech startup made headlines for clinical results published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Sports Medicine for its Phase IIb osteoarthritis study that met trial endpoints. The Company has initiated a pivotal Phase III trial of its SVF-2 platform and point-of-care therapy using autologous stromal cells from adipose tissue in a randomized,… Source link

Yandex NV (YNDX) is around the top of the Internet Content & Information industry according to InvestorsObserver. YNDX received an overall rating of 77, which means that it scores higher than 77 percent of all stocks. Yandex NV also achieved a score of 93 in the Internet Content & Information industry, putting it above 93 percent of Internet Content & Information stocks. Internet Content & Information is ranked 26 out of the 148 industries. YNDX has an Overall Score of 77. Find out what… Source link

Growing cannabis under the free rays of the sun costs a fraction of indoor or greenhouse cultivation. But outdoor producers have yet to sell millions worth of last year’s harvest, and at least one has slashed its expected selling price amid an oversupplied market. Indoor and greenhouse-grown pot make up the vast majority of legal cannabis in Canada, since it can be grown year round under far more controlled conditions. But more producers are turning to the great outdoors to push cultivation… Source link

As college football programs attempt to navigate their way to the start of the football season, the NCAA issued a “blanket waiver” on Monday evening that may help them get there quicker. The NCAA e-mailed conference football officials to inform them that the season can begin on Aug. 29 for all FBS programs, according to an e-mail viewed by Yahoo Sports. Normally, the week that’s become known Week 0 is limited and protected. NCAA director of championships Ty Halpin explained in the e-mail… Source link

3M Chairman and CEO Mike Roman is starting to see some light at the end of the long tunnel that has been the damaging COVID-19 pandemic. “We did build off a strong performance, another strong performance in the second quarter with an improving sales performance in July. It’s early days. I would say we are seeing it broad-based across businesses and geographies. It’s something, we are seeing improvement in economies starting to come through in our end market,” Roman told Yahoo… Source link